Monday 10/8/12 Living Hope

Dear Father in Heaven, thanks for another day here on earth, and thanks for watching over us.  Lord, please be with our leaders this day and please, Lord, bless them and keep them safe.  I pray today for our upcoming election for a president for America and also for those others running for office.  We really want a president that supports life, Lord.  Lord, I am not going to try and twist Your arm, I am just praying, Thy will be done, Lord.  Lord, please be with our veterans, our troops, our police, and firefighters, and all those who work so hard to keep us safe and healthy.  In the name of Jesus, I give praise today for Your supplying our daily needs in full.  In Jesus' name, I pray.  AMEN.

Good Monday Morning, my dear brothers and sisters, it is a good day, an excellent day, a perfect day here at the Southern Location of the North Pole.  Please pray for the Carry The Light Ministry food pantry, as our shelves are getting low, and there are more and more families coming for food.  Praise be to God, we have never, NOR WILL WE EVER turn anyone away.  And why?  Well, we have Living Hope.

Living Hope 10/8/12.

1 Peter 1:3 - Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!  In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade kept in heaven for you, 5 who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.  (NIV)

Living Hope, yes, we have a Living Hope, which was given to us through the death of Jesus on the cross and His being risen from the dead.  We also have a Living Hope because even when things are tough He will take care of us.  We have a Living Hope because we have JESUS CHRIST.  Dear brothers and sisters, and I expect to hear from some of you on this statement, if you do not have Jesus in your life, you have NO HOPE at all.  With Jesus you have hope, hope for today and hope for all the tomorrows that God might grant upon you.  But without Jesus, even if you live years and years, until you are well over 100, without Jesus, you still have NO HOPE.  For it is through Jesus Christ that we have faith and that we will gain heaven, where we will live with Him forever and ever.

I hear so much talk about what one might inherit here on earth from family that has passed.  I have seen and heard of families fighting over their inheritance and that one might have gotten more than another.  Brothers and sisters, I am telling you right now, the best thing that you can leave for your family once Jesus calls you home is your getting all of them to come to Jesus Christ for Salvation.

Let me be very clear about this and say it again.  With Jesus you have hope, and without Jesus you have no hope.  It is simple, clear, and brothers and sisters, it is free.  I did not say it comes cheap, for Jesus gave His life for us, but is free for all who just reach out for Jesus.  Once you receive this free gift of Salvation, then we must get to work for Him sharing the good news with others.

The inheritance of Heaven that you will receive through you being born again will not perish, spoil, or fade, it will be waiting on you safe with Jesus.  Your earthly inheritance, if indeed you do receive any, will fade, perish, spoil, rust, get stolen, etc.  Just remember this last statement, if you save up and buy gold on earth, you must buy a safe to put it in to keep it from melting in fire or someone stealing it (more than likely they will steal the safe and all).  But when you get to heaven, you are just going to walk on the gold.  How about that?

Dear Father in Heaven, please forgive me of my sins, please help me repent, and please, Lord, put my name in Your book of life so when my time comes to leave this earth, I pray I can be with You in Heaven.  Thanks, Lord.  In Jesus' Name, I pray.  Amen.

Now go forth and share your blessings.  Love ya, Pastor Dan.